{"id":8890,"date":"2011-11-28T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:19:19","slug":"is-obama-fulfilling-the-neocon-dream-of-mass-regime-change-in-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/11\/28\/is-obama-fulfilling-the-neocon-dream-of-mass-regime-change-in-muslim-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Democracy Now<\/em> article <a title=\"Democracy Now article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/11\/28\/glenn_greenwald_is_obama_fulfilling_the\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World?<\/strong><\/a> introduces the video with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark\u2019s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then U.S. Secretary of Defense had issued a memo outlining a plan for regime change within five years in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. We play an excerpt of Clark\u2019s comments and ask Greenwald to respond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So, if you are wondering why President Obama&#8217;s foreign policy is so bellicose, I have no explanation.  The video in the above article at least shows you what the policy seems to be. Who actually is in control in this administration and how did they come to have such control?  Did we know we were voting for these people to have control, whoever they are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democracy Now article Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World? introduces the video with the following: Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark\u2019s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then U.S. Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}